Setting Up Quantity Limits For One Attribute

[mc12345678]

It does not cover all bases at all. I just put in a separate item for the 1ml size. They had to write in the name of the blend they wanted in the comments section of the checkout form. I didn't have a strict quantity limit for it, I just kept track by eyeballing it (I am pretty good at that by this time) and it worked out well. I was wondering if there was some way to do it better/more sophisticatedly/etc. I suspected that there was not but thought I would ask, as you have a lot more experience with zencart than I do.

I wouldn't say it need be sopisticated, but certainly could be more elegant...

It also can be very simple if the attrbutes are set up with simplicity. Ask for clarification of anything I'm about to try to describe that may not be understood:
When reviewing the option names entered in the option names manager for the size of the bottle, is there only one such option name that is applied to all scent product that come in a size? Or is there several like fragrance1 size, fragrance2 size, etc....?

If the answer is that every fragrance has the exact same option_id (data value of the option name) then they will also all have the same option_value_id for the 1ml option.

With those two pieces known, when an item is added to the cart, two ways to approach, either first see if the item being added is a limiting product and then see if the limit has been reached (I think this is the preferred sequence) or identify hoow many of the limiting product are in the cart and then if the add-to-cart is the limiting item and te sum of the existing and new exceeds the limit take appropriate action...

Both end up either allowing, preventing, or partially allowing product being added, but there are differences in the amount of "work" they each perform.

Sure it can be coded to handle several different option_id and option_value_id pairs, but the simplest both for the code and I would say for operation/maintenance is for all product to be sold with the same type option to just simply use the same option(s) throughout.

[fabienne]

This may or may not happen. Probably won't. But I think I have thought of a simple and even elegant alternative. I could have a separate product for each one of the 1ml samples, then I just put in the total quantity I have on hand in each produce and, voila...after the first 30 are sold, it goes to sold out status automatically. No muss no fuss, no extra coding. So, you have the product for the full sized items, next to them there is the product for the samples.

But like I said, this is a long shot for happening.

[mc12345678]

So let me understand this, you want to limit the quantity of one product to 30 having the attribute of 1ml, but can buy any number of product that offer 1ml sizes but only a max of 30 1ml size of any one product...

So: order 554:
30 1ml product 1
30 1ml product 2
2 10ml product 1
30 1ml product 3
Etc... To where the above would be a valid accetable cart quantity... (Is not how I understood the original question, but...)

Is that like what you're thinking?

[fabienne]

Well, it's basically a moot point because after considering the implications of it all I have pretty much decided that it's more trouble than it's worth, on a number of different levels, not just how to present it in zencart. So I wouldn't spend any more time on it. I am grateful that you would pursue it but I don't like to waste your time.